Quotes by : Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not....

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

In youth we learn in age we understand.

Whenever two good people argue over principles they are both right.

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.....

Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

In youth we learn in age we understand.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.